One the face of it, Nokia’s prediction that 5G in combination with associated developments in edge computing, data analytics and private networking will propel the global economy forward $8 trillion by 2030 can be dismissed as just another bullish and over-optimistic forecast by a vendor of cellular infrastructure with a vested interest in stoking the market. But beneath the headline figures are some more nuanced predictions that are at least worthy of analysis, the sense being that 5G will elicit a rebalancing of the global economy away from digital services to the ‘physical industries’. There is a paradox underlying this assertion in that this shift towards physical industries accounting for 65% of all ICT investment by 2030 will occur precisely…